Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer
echo64@lemmy.world 5 months agoHeh, that’s what I felt about city skylines. Maybe that’s just the game
Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer
echo64@lemmy.world 5 months agoHeh, that’s what I felt about city skylines. Maybe that’s just the game
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
It was definitely possible to tank a city in Skylines 1. That said, it’s also not the most challenging game.
But with Skylines II, I can’t even tank one when I try. Hundreds of thousands in the red? The game throws free money at you in the form of “government subsidies” to compensate. And they cannot be disabled. Absolute shit show.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The subsidies have never saved me from failing before, they only make me fail slower (if that makes sense). It might just be something I’m experiencing though.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Yeah, I’ve heard of people having a different experience (the economy just never picking up enough to succeed) – I think both are indicative of a borked simulation.
For me, I can even be completely in the black, with 100k+ income, and I’ll still be getting hundreds of grand in subsidies. Ruins any challenge.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have a pretty large city, but something is wrong with my tax calculations? I have one industry pumping out 150x the taxes of everything else combine. Just a blanket of $5m from lumber an in-game hour, next best is Metals at $45k a day.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 months ago
What if you treat receiving subsidies as a failure condition?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
I mean, usually they’re already active as soon as the game starts, so I don’t really think it could be considered that way.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In CS 1 I purposely poisoned the entire city and it took a remarkably long time for that to have any real repercussions and can be immediately and cheaply fixed. Like you can tank a city, but it takes a concerted effort.
echo64@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I feel like whenever i “tanked” a city in cities skylines, it was because of some awkwardness in the traffic system that comes about from chaos theory rather than anything city builderey, just not really about that.